The Iowa National Guard announced Tuesday that the final five soldiers deployed to the Middle East to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility have returned home.

NATO has been in crisis since the moment it was founded. The alliance has weathered more than a dozen severe episodes of disagreement among members over money, strategy, military operations, nuclear ...

And it has cleverly adapted toward an attrition strategy that has badly strained the U.S. arsenal, threatened civilian infrastructure across the Middle East, and added a new dimension of power ...